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Number 246 August 6, 2011
Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS), announces the following breaking news in this Online DS News Update "bulletin."
--- DICK SMITH TO RECEIVE GREAT HONOR
--- KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT'S NEW NOVEL
--- UPCOMING: SG #121 TO BE MAILED TO CURRENT SUBSCRIBERS VERY SOON*** DICK SMITH NAMED FOR GOVERNORS AWARD HONORARY OSCAR
Dick Smith did the "Old Barnabas" makeup during DS and then "improved" it for 1970's HOUSE OF DS, the first DS movie.
Dick is named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to receive its Governors Award an Honorary Oscar at a special dinner ceremony on Nov. 12.
The Academy describes the award recognizes "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement (and) exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences." Actor James Earl Jones also will receive the honor.
Dick, now 89, began his professional career in 1945 and created aging makeup for Dustin Hoffman as a 121-year-old in the 1970 movie LITTLE BIG MAN. He created makeup, effects, prosthetics, and more on THE GODFATHER I & II, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, THE EXORCIST, and Dan Curtis' BURNT OFFERINGS, among many other films. He won the 1984 Oscar for AMADEUS.
**** KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT UPCOMING NEW BOOK-SIGNING S
As announced in a previous SG update, the publication party for Kathryn's new novel, "Dark Passages," loosely based on her own early-1960s experiences living in NYC, working as a a Bunny at the Playboy Club and then being cast in DS.
"A publication party for Kathryn's supernatural thriller novel "Dark Passages" will be held August 7 at Diesel Bookstore in Santa Monica (Brentwood), CA.
Reflecting Kathryn's (Maggie) own DS ties, it's a story set in the early 1960s about a popular hit TV soap opera. A young woman actress, who's actually a telekinetic vampire raised to resist human blood, joins the series' cast. She finds herself confronted by "her nemesis, a beautiful spell-weaving 300-year-old witch bent on destroying her." The 2 also vie for "the affections of a handsome young mortal with a secret life of his own."
The publication party will be at 3:00 on 8-7 at Diesel - A Bookstore in Brentwood, located in the Brentwood Country Mart, 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA. 90402. 310-576-9960.
--- Kathryn asks SG to announce these book-signing events:
Aug. 17 7pm: Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 150 E. 86th St. at Lexington Ave., NYC, NY 10028. 212-369-2180.
Sept. 13 7pm Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., W. Hollywood, CA.
**** NEW SG #121 PRINT ISSUE READY FOR SUBSCRIBERS VERY SOON
--- SG Announcement:
The newest SG #121 print issue will be mailed within days to all current and new postal-mail subscribers. Its exclusives and special contents will be highlighted in an upcoming SG Online Update.
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